If Ernesto and Oscar were as good of table mechanics as everyone makes them out to be, they wouldn't have had to replace all the GC4s at Hard Times when Oscar bought it, the tables played horrible, which is why all the players complained to much about the tables, which is why Oscar bought new Diamonds, yet, from the time those tables were installed, in until the time they were replaced, THEY were the only ones that ever worked on them! Mike, the previous own of Hard Times gave me a deposit to rebuild one of the GC4s in the tournament room on a Friday, to start the job on Monday. He played pool on his lawyers GC3 I have just finished rebuilding, over the weekend. On Monday when I got to the pool room, Mike met me, and we had lunch together, at which time he told me about playing on the GC3 I had just rebuilt. To my surprise, he told me to go ahead and keep the deposit, and he'd pay for lunch, because he changed his mind about letting me rebuild the one GC4, because it would result in him having to pay me to rebuild ALL the GCs, 31 of them, because my work was so much better than he had ever seen, and he just couldn't afford for me to get my foot in the door like that. I had already rebuilt some GCs and Diamonds up in Chico that quite a few of his gamblers play on, and they had been bugging him to have me do the work at Hard Times as well. So I just laughed about it and called Mike a chicken, he started laughing and making chicken sounds!!
